Agricola and Italy

Abstract

Agricola's stay in Italy in his young years (1524–1526) played a crucial role in his education as a humanist and scholar. In the course of his visits to the most prestigious centers of Italian Renaissance culture and stays in Bologna and Venice, Agricola was deeply influenced by the new learning, conveyed through universities and diffused by print-shops. References to Italy in Agricola's later writings, although dispersed and casual, appear quite incisive and reveal a deep insight in his cultural as well as human experience.